Roger Mellie

In: Hunter, Brown or Schache, Turner or Tommo Out: Harmes, TMac, plus another TMac in the side has gone on too long. If Brown's not considered mobile enough, bring in the Shack. The two KPD experiment is failing. Bring in Turner (more agile) or Tommo (less) to let Lever go back to his interceptor role. Also happy to bring in Laurie for Chandler but can't entertain J Smith at this point. I feel he'd get in the way. Happy for Rivers to spend more time on ball and hope Gawn exits his shell.

I'd rather stick with Will Verrall. If he can get an injury-free decent run at it, I think he'll be a ripper in a year or so.

There's booing and there's booing. Booing Wacko Jacko is fair game unless it spurs him on, but only for one game. Booing Oskar Baker was embarrassing and pathetic. I certainly won't be booing the Weed but am expecting the filth to boo Grundy on KB

I'd be happy to see a bit more of Rivers in the middle. I agree about Gus. He doesn't look fit enough for an on-ball or wing role

Agree and super surprised JJ didn't get the nod ahead of Harmes. I thought his Casey game was better than Harmes and that he would be a no-brainer to replace Hunter on the wing. JJ is definitely on the outer 😟

Lol that he'll take out Petracca on the back of 8 games

Who's Ras?

A small part of me wants this to be false - such is my dislike for Tom Morris

With Fritsch playing while hampered, I'm sure he's getting regular scans to monitor the injury.

It doesn't appear the umpires are accountable for their performance these days. I totally appreciate how difficult the game is to umpire and that the AFL needed to stamp out umpire abuse at all levels of the game. This is reflected by commentators glossing over or ignoring umpiring mistakes. Having said that, it seems it's gone too far the other way with the same umpires showing up week after week making bad calls, getting sucked in by the theatre of the game to make crowd-pleasing calls and/or failing to learn from or improve on their mistakes. Further, to me anyway, they seem to have at times, increasing influence on the momentum of games. The North v Carlton game, earlier in the year was a classic example of this. Do these guys get dropped like players for poor performances?

I think if Hunter had done anything else (excluding running away from the contest), Rozee might have had a more significant injury. We should challenge the ban. We would be providing a service for all footy fans by exposing Christian as the inept clown he is.

IMO, his limited ability to hit a target is the thing that keeps him out of the AFL side.

+1

Feral:

Not disputing that, but I do in fact, have Bowza the Bull (obviously No. 17), but he's a little tetchy at the moment and not taking photo requests.

Agree. If left unchecked, it wouldn't be long before most bench players started lining up to scream abuse. Admire his passion though.

This is Harmsey and @old55

Who's jumper are you snuggling up with tonight?

Yeah, I know. Just not keen on Jordon (the other realistic option) being the one to make way, but maybe Jordon to sub

In: Brown, Spargo, Hibbo Out: JVR (susp), Turner, Harmes Also if required in Schache, out Fritsch (managed) if required

In the next decade or so, we might have a lean year (like Richmond is having now). I don't want us to be shunted to Marvel in the unlikely event that we aren't winning. The G is our home this year, next, and forever.

I realise it's not imminent, but has he given much thought to life after footy and what he wants to do?

I thought that myself. The chin's bog standard. They should've called him Jaws